Summer 2020
About Our Cover
Writer and photographer Christie Matherne Hall saw beauty in these ruins outside Boyce, Louisiana.
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Articles
Extra Miles
Getting to know gas stations makes a flat road come alive
Emma Wilson Emery
Louisiana’s first poet laureate was female—and vehemently anti-war
Magazine
Images of the Anthropocene
Hannah Chalew’s art for our time
Passed By
Louisiana off the Interstate
Coastal
Not Our First Rodeo
The Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo is the longest-running fishing tournament in the United States
Buddy Bolden’s Blues
Did a simple vitamin deficiency cause the jazz pioneer’s mental illness?
Mystery at the Museum
Exciting discoveries in the archives
Geographer's Space
Ellicott’s Line
How the 31st parallel shaped Louisiana
Poems by Merrill Guillory
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith
A New Class
New inductees exhibition opening at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum in Natchitoches
Magazine
Lift Every Voice
The sculpture of Frank Hayden
Books and the Badge
PRIME TIME at an Ascension Parish police station is a runaway success
Hungarian Settlement
Central Europeans in Livingston Parish
I’m Architect Mike McSwain, and I Draw Pictures
Keeping drawing alive in a time of computer graphics
Harvesting Harvey
Notes from the field on the Memories of Hurricane Harvey in Louisiana Project
Jazz Ladies
Women have been fundamental in building support for jazz and its history
John Fred and His Playboy Band
Radio staple “Judy in Disguise” has Baton Rouge roots
Cajun Document
A new THNOC exhibition and book to explore Acadiana in the 1970s
Taking the Waters
Belle Cheney Springs—the southern Saratoga
A New Chapter at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
Renovations refresh a lesser-known Shreveport museum
Angola: Fact and Fiction
Plentiful stories about the prison have cemented misunderstandings
Refugee Revolution
Covering the crisis that more than doubled New Orleans’s population
